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Four times that unit would be 15 dwt. 8 grs., which is not very far from 

 13 dwt. 8 grs., the weight of the axe-head stamped with four spirals. 



Five times the unit would be 19 dwt. 4 grs., which is practically identical 

 with the weight of the axe-head stamped with five spirals, 19 dwt. 10 grs. 



I am quite conscious of the obvious objections to this scheme ; the 

 unsatisfactory working from averages, the huge margin of error that must be 

 allowed in the three-unit group, amounting to nearly 6 dwt., and, above all, 

 the anomaly that the heaviest three-unit axe is so heavy, and the four-unit 

 axe so light, that the former is actually larger than the latter. Still, the 

 figures are not undeserving of notice. We cannot build much on observa- 

 tions of the weight of five objects ; till we have five hundred at our disposal 

 we cannot feel any certainty on points such as this. 



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